Do hummingbirds like petunias or dianthus? Grow these award-winning flowers to attract pollinators.

Hummingbirds have astonishing memories, returning to reliable food sources year after year. Here's how to make sure your yard ...

Hummingbirds have astonishing memories, returning to reliable food sources year after year. Here's how to make sure your yard ...

Your feeders are ready, your nectar is sugary, but is your yard ready for hummers? Here’s what you need to check in June to make sure your favorite little hovering jewel pollinators visit you every ...

Bird feeders can be used to attract all sorts of different birds to your yard, but what about hummingbirds? Here's what we ...

Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Researchers observed hummingbirds using 12 high-speed cameras, 6 pressure plates and 2176 microphones. The soft and complex feathered wings generate sound in a fashion similar to how the simpler wings ...

When researchers found a hummingbird with glittering gold feathers, they initially thought a new species had been discovered, but what they actually found was far more unusual. The bird — found in ...

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in ...

Corrections & Clarifications: The ruby throated hummingbird is rarely seen in Arizona. A previous version of this article was incorrect about its prevalence in the state. Arizona is a hummingbird ...